Old-Salt

I'll be defecting. And if that makes me a terrorist Gordon, you're welcome to seize my so-called assets. The fact that I have none due to you taxing me to the hilt every 28th for once leaves me quite happy!

Old-Salt

We probably need to be more scared of a Stalinist government that is prepared to invoke completely inappropriate laws to achieve its aims. I can understand why the Icelanders are angry, I was fcuking furious to discover that anti-terror legislation was used to freeze assets, in spite of having my ISA invested there and consequently at risk.

When I think of the hoops we had to jump though in Northern Ireland to make sure the case stuck against the terrorist, and I see this government treating the law (its own law) with such disrespect it makes my blood boil!

Mutter, mutter, seethe, seethe....

What do you know about surfing, Major? You're from goddamn New Jersey.

Old-Salt

Iceland's principal contributor to its own economy was banking. It got rich off the backs of its investors by offering better interest rates. Win-win situation, until there's a credit crunch. Many financial advisers (like mine) recommended Iceland, but with an economy built only on banking, when the banks go t1ts up, so does the whole country. There's no industrial base to speak of, just banks and tourism.

LE

Iceland's principal contributor to its own economy was banking. It got rich off the backs of its investors by offering better interest rates. Win-win situation, until there's a credit crunch. Many financial advisers (like mine) recommended Iceland, but with an economy built only on banking, when the banks go t1ts up, so does the whole country. There's no industrial base to speak of, just banks and tourism.

LE

My name was read out by the clerk and I had to go sit in the jury box. I didn’t get excused by the judge or the prosecution; even the defense attorney had no objection to me so I had to sit at a sex offense trial. At least it was quick and over in one day. We found the guilty bastard er.. guilty.